Examples of mystified

• Romanticism's notion of originality, in my view, mystified the notion of fame by substituting a cultural criterion for the economic one.

• Continued reference to customary law kept the agents of the state mystified about and marginal to important affairs of the region and community.

• In effect, the research process could not be mystified and my performance as a researcher was transparent.

• The plaintiff seemed quite mystified by this remark.

• But before you get it, you can be quite mystified as to what is going on.

• She then dramatically revealed that the clothing appeared complete and uncut; so that the seance-goers were mystified as to how the pieces she distributed had been produced.

• Empathy has long mystified social theorists, resisting simple description and explanation.

• He is mystified intentionally, now presented with illusion for reality, now reality for illusion, jolted from one to the other until in complete befuddlement he is sure of nothing.

• Scientific fraud of course occurs, but when it does, colleagues are genuinely saddened, and mystified about how the fraudsters thought they could get away with it.

• They would find the whole of the middle vote solidly behind them, for those people are alarmed and mystified.

• The locals have been mystified because the colonels have disappeared.

• I am mystified as to why ideology-crazed feminists come out of the woodwork during almost every debate we hold.

• The ordinary person is completely mystified about that.

• But all those parties will be mystified at the idea that handing hospitals over to mutual social ownership is abandoning leftist principles.

• I have always been mystified by the processes of the magistrates courts committee.